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Were Russia an ardent supporter of the Marshall Plan, desirous of guaranteeing its activation, the Kremlin could scarcely have made a move better calculated to gain its goal than the recently consummated revival of the Communist International. For Senators and Representatives, who might not see their way clear to vote billions for purely humanitarian purposes, may be swayed by allusions to the "Red menace." But the "official party line." far from supporting the Marshal Plan, has damned it as a vile Capitalist plot...
...surprise. Said 60-year-old General Lee, with stern modesty: "I hope to give my abilities, such as they are, to the church of which I am a member." Correspondents knew that General Lee, an Episcopalian, kept a Bible on his desk and another in his briefcase, was an ardent churchgoer, had been known to preach a sermon on several occasions. They remembered that he called on Pope Pius XII several times, presumably to discuss means of smoothing Protestant-Catholic relations...
...shorter than Dee-Dee. He had been married twice before-to Dominican Dictator Trujillo's daughter Flor de Oro, and to Danielle Darrieux, the pert and sexy French film star (Mayerling), who had once been marked for death by the French underground. Around Paris nightclubs, everybody knew eager, ardent Rubi...
...couples met in a huge Left Bank apartment. They had foregathered to practice the latest Parisian intellectual pretension-intimatism. Present were the high priest of the movement, dynamic René Sébille, 34, and some of his ardent disciples. The men were journalists and writers. The girls were young and pretty...
...Luis on Havana's Belascoáin Street, the talk was loud & long about "going to Santo Domingo to fight Trujillo." Mostly the talkers were young Cubans out for adventure and a chance to strike at dictatorship. Some may have been Communists; some were Communism's most ardent enemies. But there were also Dominicans. For weeks Dominican exiles had been trickling into Havana, by plane and boat from the U.S., Puerto Rico, Venezuela and Guatemala. Something was up, and that something was a filibuster in the romantic Caribbean's best tradition...